dr Anna Hernandez-Połczyńska

dr Anna Hernandez-Połczyńska
dr Anna Hernandez-Połczyńska

senior researcher

dr Anna Hernandez-Połczyńska

Anna Hernandez-Połczyńska, Ph.D. – senior researcher at the Poznań Human Rights Centre of the Institute of Law Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

She defended a doctoral thesis on the special procedures of the UN Human Rights Council.

Co-editor of the commentary to the International Covenant of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.

Since 2015 she is responsible for the organization of the Summer Course on International Protection of Human Rights”.

Her research interests include: UN system of the protection of human rights; economic, social and cultural rights and constitutional rights and freedoms.

Selected articles:

Edited books:

  • Międzynarodowy Pakt Praw Gospodarczych, Socjalnych i Kulturalnych. Komentarz (International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. Commentary), ed. A. Hernandez-Połczyńska, Z. Kędzia, Warsaw 2018.
  • O prawach człowieka. Księga jubileuszowa Profesora Romana Wieruszewskiego (On Human Rights. Festschrift for Professor Roman Wieruszewski), ed. G. Baranowska, A. Gliszczyńska-Grabias, A. Hernandez-Połczyńska, K. Sękowska-Kozłowska, Warsaw 2017.

Selected articles:

  • Prawo do odpowiedniego mieszkania (The Right to an Adequate Housing), [in:] Międzynarodowy Pakt Praw Gospodarczych, Socjalnych i Kulturalnych. Komentarz (International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. Commentary), ed. A. Hernandez-Połczyńska, Z. Kędzia, Warsaw 2018, pp. 517-541.
  • Immigration Problems Facing the European Union from the Perspective of United Nations Human Rights Council Mechanisms, Adam Mickiewicz University Law Review 2018, Vol. 8.
  • Procedury specjalne a rozbudowa uniwersalnego systemu ochrony praw człowieka (Special procedures and the expansion of the universal human rights system), Studia Prawnicze 2017, Vol. 3, pp. 101-113 (co-author).
  • Specjalne procedury Rady Praw Człowieka a Powszechny Przegląd Okresowy (Special procedures of the Human Rights Council and the Universal Periodic Review), [in:] O prawach człowieka. Księga jubileuszowa Profesora Romana Wieruszewskiego (On Human Rights. Festschrift for Professor Roman Wieruszewski), ed. G. Baranowska, A. Gliszczyńska-Grabias, A. Hernandez-Połczyńska, K. Sękowska-Kozłowska, Warsaw 2017, pp. 219-226.
  • Universal Periodic Review [w:] Report on the analysis and critical assessment of EU engagement in UN bodies

 

Participation in research projects:

  • Since 2017: Impact of the universal standard of human rights protection on the case law of the European Court of Human Rights. Critical Analysis. Project financed by the National Science Center of Poland.
  • 2013-2018: International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights – A Commentary. Project financed by the National Science Center of Poland.
  • 2014-2015: Fostering Human Rights Among European (Internal and External) Policies (FRAME). Project financed by the 7th Framework Program of the European Commission (FP7/2007-2013).

Coordination of summer courses:

  • Summer Course on International Protection of Human Rights “Gender in Law and Practice”, 27.08.-5.09.2018 r.
  • Refugees and Migrants in International Human Rights Law, 3– 12.07.2017 r.
  • Refugees and Migrants in International Human Rights Law, 22-31.08.2016 r.
  • Summer Course on International Protection of Human Rights – Resolution of Conflicts Concerning Minorities, 31.08.-9.10.2015 r.